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statement
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statement	is a subtopic of The Basics of Java
	is a kind of programming language construct
	should be not more than one line long if possible

Kinds of statement :

• assertion (3 facts) - A statement that must be true; if it becomes false then the software has encountered a failure
• assignment statement (1 kind, 3 facts)
• decision-making statement (1 kind, 2 facts)
• Java statement (5 kinds, 3 facts)
• long statement (3 facts)
• loop (2 kinds, 4 facts)
• OCL statement (1 kind, 14 facts)
• postcondition (3 facts) - A statement that is guaranteed to be true following the successful completion of some action
• precondition (4 facts) - A statement that must be true before some algorithm, method or use case is executed
• user interface statement (3 facts)